As SMBs adopt cloud solutions, how can partners continue to provide value-added services to those organizations? Innovative partners are finding ways to "package" services to accompany cloud-based changes in both technology and buyer attitudes.
- By Barb Levisay
- February 15, 2012
Microsoft once again made some cuts to its SQL Azure pricing, as well as introduced a 100 MB database storage option.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2012
Microsoft announced some upcoming enhancements to the so called "kiosk worker" plans in its Office 365 offering last month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2012
Microsoft is offering a free trial app of a new test service designed to help SQL Azure users monitor the security of their databases housed in Microsoft's cloud.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 31, 2012
Microsoft's System Center Advisor, a new service addition to the System Center management suite, became generally available last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 30, 2012
In a webinar on Thursday, consultancy firm Directions on Microsoft described a rough timeline for Microsoft's emerging products and services in 2012 and beyond.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 27, 2012
Dell has announced the new vStart 200 server, a new hardware product that can host up to 200 virtual machines.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 25, 2012
While waiting for Microsoft to put ERP cloud offerings online, some Dynamics partners have started padding their portfolios with SaaS-based ERP solutions from other vendors.
- By Barb Levisay
- January 23, 2012
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday launched DynamoDB, a new database service that will let customers store and modify huge amounts of unstructured content while proving rapid access to data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 18, 2012
All eight solutions in the System Center 2012 product family are now available as release candidates (RCs), Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 18, 2012
The cloud contracts just keep on coming for Google, which this week inked a deal for the biggest rollout of its Google Apps suite to date.
- By Gladys Rama
- January 12, 2012
Partners would be ill-advised to ignore the growing popularity of app stores.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 11, 2012
Microsoft will reveal more about its vision for the private cloud during an hour-long webinar on Jan. 17 titled "Transforming IT With Microsoft Private Cloud."
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 05, 2012
RCP asked 19 channel luminaries for their best piece of advice for the year ahead. Here are their tips on ways to make 2012 a banner year for Microsoft partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 03, 2012
The fight for market share is intensifying, and as a result the costs for a share point of growth are getting frightfully more expensive.
- By Mike Harvath
- January 03, 2012
Microsoft would not comment on a report that states the company is planning to allow customers to host Linux servers on its Windows Azure cloud service this year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 03, 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE: For many partners, matching their priorities with Microsoft's is a sure-fire way to boost business. Conveniently, Microsoft has just listed its top priority areas -- or "priority workloads" -- for the Microsoft Partner Network. Here they are, along with the related products and competencies for each.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 31, 2011
Microsoft has lost the bid to provide cloud-based e-mail and calendaring services to the University of California, Berkeley, which announced this week that it has chosen Google Apps for Education over Microsoft's Office 365 suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- December 23, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: In Part 2 of our Q&A with Microsoft's Tom Rizzo, he discusses Office 365's momentum and how Microsoft's advisor and syndication partners are contributing to its growth.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 20, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Part 1 of our two-part Q&A with Microsoft's Tom Rizzo. He talks about the cloud, Office 365's recent compliance coup, and why Google Apps wouldn't be missed if it got shuttered.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 19, 2011